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Oceans: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Oceans Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Oceans - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine..
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

Here is the Table of Contents for the Oceans - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Are the Oceans?: Reading Informational Text
The Ocean & Us: Reading Informational Text G
Oceans Around the World: Data Analysis & Map Activity
Ocean & Atmosphere: Applying Concepts GO6
Tides: Comparison of Sources
Close to Shore: Comparison of Sources
The Pelagic Zone: Reading Informational Text GO2
Ocean Floor Formations: Applying Concepts G
Ocean Plants: Reading Informational Text
Plants: Ocean and Land: Comparison of Primary Sources
Ocean Animals: Reading Informational Text G
Life Near the Vents: Primary Source Analysis
Jacques Cousteau: Ocean Explorer: Comparison of Sources G
Pollution Problems: Cause & Effect G
Pollution Solutions: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Ocean Poetry: Comparison of Primary Sources
Ocean Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)